[lb1lf]

Most countries can fast track a visa if there is enough money on the line for someone.

Before I had kids, I did pretty much the same thing for a supplier of offshore handling equipment - seismic survey, oceanography, ROVs, that kind of thing. On more than one occasion we were sent out with tickets only to some major hub in the general vicinity of where we were going, giving the back office a few more hours to figure out how to have a visa or a waiver issued by the time we got to the hub.

Whenever possible, we had work visas issued in advance for most countries we were likely to visit - oh, and a pair of passports to ensure, uh, incompatible visas didn't end up in the same passport.

(An Iranian immigration officer once chucklingly suggested that if he could offer me just one bit of professional advice, it would be to NOT go to the US on the passport currently on his desk - with visas to Iran, Libya and Algerie, to name but a few...)

[Breza]

I was surprised to learn that the US government allows duplicate passports for exactly this kind of situation. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/have-pa...